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1. Scrabble2. Sorry3. Battlefield (I have no idea.)4. Othello5. Oh, I've played this one once--just to be nice. Not my cup of tea, way too slow for me, but a good game for strategists. All well and good, but what's its name? Oh! Settlers of Catan.

I would just like to thank my parents for banning TV for five years of my life I have an unusal knowlege of card and board games. My Grandmother still makes me play marathon games of Skipo with two decks when I go to visit her.

Scrabble (I left my husband marooned - while playing this game - it is now one of my favorites), Sorry, _____, Go (I have lost far too many time playing this game.), Settlers of Catan (I have lost far too many times playing this game.)

1. Scrabble2. Parcheesi? I think this is wrong but Parcheesi also has the star-shape and those colors. (Oh! It IS wrong--I just peeked at other people's answers. Oh, well.)3. Stratego4. Go5. Um... Um... My brother would so know this one... Er, ...risk?

1. Scrabble2. Parcheesi3. Battlefield?4. Go5. Settlers of CatanI can testify that these are all awesome games except 3, which I can't say I've played and am only guessing as to what it's called. Also sorry about my spelling.

Oh, Stratego. There's the reason I never tried it. If I get my ass whipped at a strategy game, it has to be Go, I don't even mess around with anything else. But Go is incredible, even if I will never win even a little. We played it with white and black rocks on the cardboard from a case of beer in Florida.

1 scrabble2 Sorry ?3 Stratego4 Ok - this looks like Pente, but the board doesn't look right, I think Go is the same game but older. So either Go or Pente.5 OH - I think I've played this game. Traders of..... Catan?

Chance moves into double digits, taking his 10th E.P.; drschnell is right behind him with his ninth.

Cartophiliac and la gringissima take their 7th and 6th, respectively.

Rebel snags her fourth.

And two recent newcomers bring home their first L&TM5K laurels today: Yankee in England and Oily Gus. Yankee and Gus are the Alaska and Hawaii of the Quizzes, you might say -- the 49th and 50th persons, respectively, to take a Star and/or an Exclamation Point. Sweet!

@Yankee -- That's a very gracious Thank You speech. You have to be pretty brutally confident to start giving the shout-out to your family while the game is still going on.

@Rex: It is from a long-ago time called "the Mid 90s." It's probably the best known of a newer generation of "German-style" board games that emphasize strategy without going to the maniacal lengths of earlier strategy games. I've never played it myself, but it's supposed to be pretty cool. My understanding is, it's kind of a Hexagonal Farming War.

@NJR: Stop living in the past, and start playing a game that simulates 18th Century commodities trading?

@Carto: It sounds like Settlers of Catan humor is pretty damn baaaaaad.

And, my original photo of the Settlers board is large enough so I can zoom in on the game card, which turns out to be written in German.

@KellyI: Fair question!

1. I own and love Scrabble, and am playing half the known world on Facebook.

2. Sorry is a sweet game. I bought two incomplete 1950s era boards on the cheap off Ebay, and mixed and matched the best components from them, so I have an unusually cool Sorry board.

3. I do not have Stratego. Little Big Tom confiscated my set. (10 points to identify this cultural reference.)

4. We have a Go set, but it makes us feel Stoopid.

5. I don't have, and have never played, Settlers of Catan.

@H.R.Doc, Jane F-H, NJR: Welcome to the show! Good to have you aboard.

My parent's house still has three of huge wire shelving units in the basement full of board and card games. They would be so pleased to know that their five year TV ban has led me to become the Alaska of the Monday Quiz. I guess now I will have to grant my little sister a game of Sorry when I go home to visit.

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